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[ARM926EJS] improve write miss

Note: This was originally posted on 5th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Hello experts,

    The platform I am using is ARM926EJS. Cache policy is write-back and only read-allocate.
    From the profile result, the program I want to optimize has too many write misses (write buffer refill)
    Can anyone give me some guidelines or tricks to improve my program? thanks.

BR,
Stanley

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Scott Douglass over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 7th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

If you're only writing to the output (not reading and writing) then I'm not sure there's much you can do besides
- write the output in at least 32-bit chunks (maybe even larger, e.g. STM) -- writing bytes will stall the write buffer sooner
- make sure you're only writing the output once
- write the output in consecutive ascending addresses (actually, that probably only helps if the output is already in the cache, which I'm guessing is not happening here)
- try to find out if the memory timing is set as fast as possible in whatever memory controller you're using
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Scott Douglass over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 7th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

If you're only writing to the output (not reading and writing) then I'm not sure there's much you can do besides
- write the output in at least 32-bit chunks (maybe even larger, e.g. STM) -- writing bytes will stall the write buffer sooner
- make sure you're only writing the output once
- write the output in consecutive ascending addresses (actually, that probably only helps if the output is already in the cache, which I'm guessing is not happening here)
- try to find out if the memory timing is set as fast as possible in whatever memory controller you're using
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